Signs of Former Nuclear Age - India

Have We Shattered the Atom Before?—Signs of a Former Nuclear Age, for all weapon technology lovers.

In ancient India the texts of the Karna Parva recounts the story of “the War of the Gods and Asuras” waged by the great ruler Sankara Mahadeva against his enemies, the Daityas and Danavas. The ruler went forth in his “radiant celestial vehicle” and attacked the triple-city of Tripura, totally destroying it with his “god-given weapon” and sending “all the rebellious races burning to the bottom of the Western Ocean .” The texts in Chapter XXXIV of the Karna Parva say that:

“The illustrious deity sped forth, and his shaft which represented the might of the whole universe penetrated the triple city. Loud wails of woe were heard from all those within as they began to fall. Thus was the triple city burnt and thus were the Asuras burned and the Danavas exterminated by the gods.”

In the Hindu epic poems of the Mahabharata and Ramayana are even more detailed descriptions of an age thousands of years ago when great god-kings rode about in their Vimanas or flying craft and waged war by launching powerful weapons at their enemies.

The descriptions given of these weapons in the ancient verses—their force, the characteristics of their destruction and the after-affects—sound disturbingly modern. The texts describe:

*The thunderbolt of Indra was endowed with the force of thousand-eyed Indra’s thunder.

*The bolt of death measured three cubits by six. It was the unknown weapon, the iron thunderbolt of Indra, the messenger of death.

*The projectile was charged with all the power of the Universe.

*The Agneya weapon was capable of being resisted by none of the very gods themselves.

*The Brahma-danda or Brahma’s rod was even more powerful.

*Though it struck only once, it smote whole countries and entire races from generation to generation.

*Adwattan let loose the blazing missile of smokeless fire.

*The missile burst with the power of thunder.

*The flying missile ruined whole cities filled with forts.

*The three cities of the Vrishnis and Andhakas were destroyed together in one instant.

*An incandescent column of smoke and fire as brilliant as ten thousand suns rose in all its splendor.

*Clouds roared upward showering dust and gravel.

*Dense arrows of flame like a great shower issued forth upon creation, encompassing the enemy on all sides.

*The sky blazed and the ten points of the horizon filled with smoke.

*Meteors flashed down from the sky.

*Fierce winds began to blow, and the very elements seemed disturbed.

*The sun appeared to waver in the heavens.

*The earth and all its mountains and seas and forests began to tremble.

*The wind blew as a fierce storm and the earth glowed.

*No one saw the fire—it was unseen. Yet it consumed everything.

*As rain poured down it was dried in mid-air by the heat.

*Birds croaked madly, and beasts shuddered from the destruction.

*Animals crumpled to the ground, their heads broken, and they died over a vast region.

*Elephants burst into flame, running to and fro in frenzy seeking protection.

*The waters of rivers and lakes boiled and the creatures residing therein perished.

*Thousands of war vehicles fell down on either side.

*Whole armies collapsed like trees in a forest burnt where they stood as in a raging fire.

*Corpses were so burnt they were no longer recognizable.

*The gaze of the Kapilla weapon was powerful enough to burn fifty thousand men to ashes.

*The thunderbolt reduced to ashes the entire race of Vrishnis and Ankhakas.

*To escape the breath of death the warriors leapt into rivers to wash themselves and bury their armor.

*Hair and nails fell out.

*Unborn children were killed in the womb.

*Birds were born with white feathers, red feet and in the shape of turtles.

*Pottery broke without cause.

*All foods became poisoned and inedible.

*The land was afflicted by drought thereafter for ten long years.

There are too many details here that are frighteningly similar to an eye-witness account of a nuclear explosion—the brightness of the blast, the column of rising smoke and fire, the fallout, intense heat and shock waves, the appearance of the victims and the effects of radiation poisoning. More than half a century ago these ancient descriptions were considered mere fantasy—but with the advent of the Nuclear Age in 1945, suddenly the texts from ancient India take on a whole new meaning.

There are remains that strongly suggest that nuclear wars were indeed waged in the distant past. According to the Mahabharata, the Great Bharata War in which flying Vimanas and fiery weapons were used, involved prehistoric inhabitants along the upper Ganges River of northern India . Precisely in the region, between the Ganges and the mountains of Rajmahal, are numerous charred ruins which have yet to be explored or excavated.

Observations made in the nineteenth century indicated that the ruins were not burnt by ordinary fire. In many instances they appeared as huge masses fused together with deeply pitted surfaces—described as being like tin struck by a stream of molten steel.

Some scholars are of the opinion that the horrific war which brought about the fall of the prehistoric Rama Empire in India was once fought in the region of what is now Kashmir . Just outside of Srinigar are the massive ruins of a temple complex called Parshaspur, whose multi-ton stone blocks are scattered over a wide area. The configuration of the blocks is suggestive of a tremendous explosion having once destroyed the site. It is not without karmic significance that today the two modern southern Asian nuclear powers— India and Pakistan —are bitter rivals, and one of the elements of their contention is the disputed region of Kashmir .

In the Mahabharata – Musala Parva book 8: 

“The unknown weapon is radiant lightning, a devastating messenger of death, which turned all the relation of Vrishni and Andhaka to ashes. Their calcined bodies were unrecognizable. Those who escaped lost their hair and nails. Crockery broke without cause; birds turned white. In a very short time food was poisonous. The lightning subsided and became fine ash.” 

A report from Hiroshima or Nagasaki ? 

The first atom bomb fell on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945. It claimed 260,000 human lives and the number of wounded was legion. Three days later Nagasaki was annihilated by atom bombs. There were 150,000 dead. We are haunted by images that rob us of sleep; people shriveled up to the size of children’s dolls by the incandescent heat; invalids without hair or skin who perished in field hospitals; trees and fields which were nothing but ashes. We must never forget it.